FigurePrints

Over the Thanksgiving holiday I found out my brother had his rogue made into a FigurePrint so I decided to post some photos of it for those that might be interested in seeing what one looks like when you get it.

11 thoughts on “FigurePrints”

I’m sure it has to do with the process of creating these things, but the paint job has always turned me away from these figureprints. In all honesty, it looks like they’ve taken printer paper, printed out parts of your character, and just glued it on. The paint just looks flat and pastel-ish.

It’s a cool little service, just not something that visually appeals to me.

Lufia22, it is the process. I believe the material that is used is pretty porous and I believe they use some sort of dot-matrix printing technology. It’s a very cool process, but I agree that the blurry outcome is still a little… wanting.

It’s still pretty f’n cool to have your own character on your mantle. Just don’t stand too close. ;)

It’s the 3D printing process; if it’s like the rapid prototyping I’ve seen, it’s “printed” in crossections and glued together as it goes. It makes for fairly cheap 3D physical models, but the finish will inevitably be grainy like this. Some machines even print with sugar crystals.

I’d definitely want a clearcoat on mine, even if I had to put it there myself. It would be better visually and for structural integrity.

Still, it’s pretty cool to see a 3D representation of a virtual character.